Psalm 119:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Job 39:17

I myself made her foolish and without common sense.

Psalm 119:10

I worship you with all my heart. Don't let me walk away from your commands.

Psalm 39:12

“Listen, LORD, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting your home as my ancestors did.

Psalm 39:13

Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone.”

Isaiah 63:17

Why did you make us turn away from you, our LORD? Why did you make us want to disobey you? Please change your mind! We are your servants, your very own people.

Luke 24:45

Then he helped them understand the Scriptures.

Luke 9:45

But the disciples did not know what he meant. The meaning was hidden from them. They could not understand it, and they were afraid to ask.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So always be cheerful! As long as we are in these bodies, we are away from the Lord.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.